E-Book

"The Guggenheim Reader Series: Russia"

Published in 2012
212 pages, fully illustrated

The Guggenheim Reader Series: Russia is the inaugural title in a new e-book series that brings together scholarly essays on prominent themes. The Guggenheim has a rich history of exploring Russian art and the avant-garde in particular; this anthology collects the most insightful and influential essays from exhibition catalogues such as The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915–1932 (1992) and Russia! Nine Hundred Years of Masterpieces and Master Collections (2005), as well as focused monographic studies of Russian masters like Vasily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich.

"New Insights into Soviet Constructivism: Painting, Constructions, Production Art" Margit Rowell, from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia: Selections from the George Costakis Collection (1981), pp. 15–32.

"The Art of the Soviet Book, 1922–32" Susan Compton, from The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915–1932 (1992), pp. 609–21.

"Terms of Transition: The First Discussional Exhibition and the Society of Easel Painters" Charlotte Douglas, from The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915–1932 (1992), pp. 450–65.